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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Vowel Digraph
VV
Letter naming Chart
Modern English
2. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Chall's Stage 0
Phonemic/ decodable words
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Norm-Referenced Test
3. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Composite Score
IDEA
Reading Comprehension Support
Three Layers of Language
4. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
RTI
Percentile/ percentile rank
Profile
Chall's Stage 1
5. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Consonant Digraph
Synthetic Instruction
Vr
6. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Attention
Tilde
Visual Learners
Reliability
7. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Criterion-Referenced Test
Phoneme
Auditory Learners
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
8. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Suffix
Syllable Instruction
Mathew Effect
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
9. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Reliability
Simultaneous teaching
Analytic
IDEA
10. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Frank Smith
Raw score
Base Word
IEP
11. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Composite Score
Dyslexia
Towre
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
12. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Grapheme
Norm-Referenced Test
Chall's Stage 2
13. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Kinesthetic
Visual Learners
Texas Education Code 28.06
Visual Processing
14. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Criterion referenced tests
Base Word
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonics approach
15. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Dyslexia
Macron
Standard deviation
Closed Syllable
16. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Academic Achievement Tests
Kinesthetic
Components of Reading Instruction
Mastery level
17. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Sight Words
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Oral Language
VV
18. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
Chall's Stage 2
Samuel T. Orton
Cedilla
19. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
SBOE
Grapheme
Ability
Quadrigraph
20. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Analytic
Anglo Saxon
IDEA
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
21. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Diagnostic tests
Vr
Morpheme
Standard deviation
22. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
NICHD
Modification
Joe Torgesen
23. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Texas Education Code 28.06
Suffix
Reading Comprehension Support
24. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Rate
Visual Processing
Attention
Diagnostic tests
25. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Battery
Standard score
Towre
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
26. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Macron
Composite Score
Criterion referenced tests
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
27. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Prefix
Morpheme
Multi-Sensory Approach
28. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Direct Instruction
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Greek layer of language
29. Feeling through fingertips
Syllable Instruction
The Norman Conquest
Top-down Reading Approach
Tactile
30. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Stanine Scores
Letter naming Chart
Keith Stanovich
Dyslexia
31. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
VC
Breve
Cognitive Assessment
32. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Latin layer of language
Chall's Stage 1
WRAT
33. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Phonemic/ decodable words
Social language
Syntax
34. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Modification
Sight Words
Keith Stanovich
Breve
35. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Criterion referenced tests
Syllable
Tactile
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
36. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Standardized test
IDEA
Phonemic Awareness
Derivative
37. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WRAT
Six basic types of syllables
WIATII
Texas Education Code 38.003
38. Individual Educational Plan
Adolf Kusmaul
Grade equivalents
IEP
Morphology
39. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Suffix
Phonemic Awareness
Standard score
Syllable
40. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Kinesthetic
Great Vowel Shift
Fluency
Battery
41. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
SBOE
Frank Smith
Standardized test
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
42. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Anglo Saxon
V-e
Trigraph
Tactile
43. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Attention
Consonant
IDEA
SBOE
44. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
V >
Morphology
Texas Education Code 28.06
The Norman Conquest
45. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Modern English
Synthetic Instruction
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Anna Gillingham
46. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
IMSLEC
Cognition
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
[-'le
47. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Matthew Effect
ALTA
Orthography
Fluency
48. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Cognition
Kinesthetic
Raw score
49. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Phonological Awareness
Base Word
NICHD
Receptive language
50. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Sight Words
Middle English
Analytic
Letter naming Chart